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The Works
(featuring John Magnie and Tommy Malone)
Stage 4
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans, La.
April 29, 1983
2:45-3:45 p.m.


1 It Will Be Me *
2 Fall Apart &
3 Woman *
4 I Don't Care *&
5 Beat it Betty *#
6 Never See Me Crying *
7 Willie Weeks
8 No Mercy *
9 I'll Be Tonight &
10 Need Somebody *#
11 Gun Up In The Tower #
12 Agent Double-O Soul *
13 Can-do Man *

* John Magnie, lead vocals
& Possibly Marc Hoffman, lead vocals
# Tommy Malone, lead vocals

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Reviewer: notenoughtime - - December 13, 2010
Subject: About the The Works
Prior to forming the subdudes in 1987, John Magnie and Tommy Malone worked together in a number of bands, including L’il Queenie and The Percolators, The Works and the Continental Drifters. The Works came together from the ashes of The Percolators in early 1983. The band lasted only about a year.

The Works, like the Continental Drifters that followed, were much more raucous than the early subdudes, as you’ll hear on this recording.

This recording is notable for an embryonic version of Need Somebody, one of the first songs co-written by Magnie and Malone and which was featured several years later on the subdudes' first album and which continues to be performed by them regularly today.

A few other songs might be recognizable, as they were featured on John Magnie's early '80s solo album (Now Appearing) and were part of the subdudes' early repetoire: It Will Be Me, Woman, Never See Me Crying and Agent Double-O Soul. It Will Be Me is similar in arrangement to the way it was performed in previous years by L'il Queenie and the Percolators, however with Tommy Malone taking Leigh Harris's high-harmony part.

The vocalist of three songs is not known, though it may be Marc Hoffman, who was later an early writing partner of Johnny Ray Allen (another founder of the subdudes; they wrote “Any Cure” and “Deepest Thoughts”):

-- Richard Russell, subdudes.com

Notes

Source info: soundboard > master cassette > Tommy Malone's Maxell C-60 cassette (Dolby use marked 'no')

Transfer to flac (March 2007): cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (head azimuth adjusted for optimal playback; no Dolby on playback, normal bias) > Harmon Kardon HK3480 > analog > Audiomedia III soundcard > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.62 > firewire hard drive > Macintosh Powerbook G4/1000 > Bias Peak 4.14 (split into songs at sector boundaries) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.59 > flac

No eq or noise reduction